Program Support Officer

Program Support Officer, Road Safety

Vital Strategies India Services Private Limited is focused on strengthening and revitalizing public health systems to address the leading causes of death, disease, and injury. We deploy our unique world-class technical expertise and global experience to design and support scalable solutions that can bridge the gap between public health needs and their solutions, with a focus on rapid large-scale impact. We leverage our core strengths in the areas of public health Intelligence to strengthen the collection and use of data for informed government action, strategic communication to build awareness and behavior change, institutional strengthening, and innovative financing. In addition to our topical areas of focus - noncommunicable diseases, environmental health and climate change, injury prevention, and social determinants of health we also prioritize work that aims to strengthen the fundamental, foundational dimensions of public health practice that enable governments to tackle and respond to any public health challenge. We combine our local teams and expertise with Vital Strategies' global infrastructure, knowledge management, and best practices as we scale. It allows us to innovate and to more easily structure high-value partnerships to expand our public health impact and to ensure our actions are locally relevant, effective, and enduring.

All members of the Vital India team embody the organization's values and are integral to promoting our brand, supporting our growth, and ensuring operational excellence.

The Program Support Officer will play an instrumental role in providing support to Road Safety efforts in India. The position will work closely with the other teams and divisions working on road safety. Coordinating with different stakeholders on behalf of the Senior Manager, RS in India, the Program Support Officer will provide operational and administrative support to ensure the initiative objectives are met. This position can be remote anywhere from India.

The salary for this position is INR 14,25,000 to INR 19,00,000. To help you stay energized, engaged, and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits, including comprehensive healthcare and accidental cover, vacation time, and others.

**Duties & Responsibilities**

**General Road Safety Initiative Support**
- Support the Senior Manager with administrative tasks, including maintaining calendars, taking and distributing meeting notes, and other tasks as needed;
- In coordination with support teams in other global offices, prepare documents related to countries and cities.
- Liaise between the diverse teams that support Road Safety and provide general support accordingly.
- Coordinate with diverse teams both internally and externally to ensure the availability of relevant documentation pertaining to the initiative.
- Work closely with other Road Safety teams, and administrative/operations colleagues across the organisation to meet objectives.
- Maintain organisational systems for filing, reporting and other deliverables;
- Design simple templates to collect and generate reports for internal and external consumption;
- Create and personalise templates for documents used internally and externally by the team;
- Perform data entry using Microsoft Word processing, Excel spreadsheets, or database commands and formats for material as required;
- Support the Senior Manager with event planning and develop standard organisational procedures/checklists to systematise event management.
- Assist the Senior Manager with travel arrangements for team site and city visits.
- Organise agenda for weekly, monthly and team meetings as required.
- Prepare presentations and assist with creating and distributing documents;
- Draft letters, tables, charts, graphs, maps, data tables, presentations, and other visual aids as necessary;
- Correspond on behalf of the Senior Manager RS to provide basic information to external stakeholders;
- Conduct basic research and analysis for reporting and documentation purposes.

**India Support**
- Develop supporting documents for contracts including using DocuSign CLM;
- Support the Road Safety team in India with the processing of invoices, claims, reimbursements, and per diems (as needed);
- Ensure that transactions, expenditures, and initiative deliverables are tracked until they are completed;
- Coordinate with IT teams and provide assistance with regular maintenance of equipment;
- Collate work plans and other initiative material for dissemination;
- Identify, coordinate, and process information for Human Subjects Research compliance;
- Monitor and co-evaluate milestones, achievements, and deliverables;
- Facilitate city and partner meetings and set agendas under the supervision of the Senior Manager;
- Correspond with other team members to coordinate reviews of work;

**Reporting**
- Assist with reporting as requested by the Senior Manager for Road Safety India;
- Synthesise data for weekly report